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One Encouraged by the Leaves

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on October 26, 2025| Leave a Comment »

flying the story of myself
like a kite in the wind—
can I let go of the string

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Thinking about Change

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on November 12, 2024| 7 Comments »

remembering a visit to El Morro in Old San Juan
 
 
Above the vast green field
at least a hundred colorful kites
dive and soar, weave and swirl
as hundreds of families
gather with blankets and picnics—
and what would they think,
all those soldiers and troops
who for hundreds of years
fought and defended and
readied this place for battle,
would they dream it possible
the sounds they’d hear here now,
not artillery fire, not cannons,
not hoarse and desperate commands,
but for this Sunday afternoon
horn-happy music, wind-giddy whooping,
bright laughter of children rolling in grass,
and in the air no smoke, no shelling, no screams,
only the rustle and fluttery hum of kites
as they swoop and dance in the breeze.

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One Release

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »

 

 

you the red kite

I thrill to fly—

and me

cutting the line,

learning I, too, can fly

 

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Preferably Purple

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on October 18, 2018| 3 Comments »

 

 

 

 

I need nothing more today

than a bit of string—not

to hold things together, no,

but to wrap around my wrist

and touch each time I need

to remember to be kind.

Which is all day. The trick

is remembering to touch it,

remembering the invitation

to choose what is kind.

A fierce wind blows.

All day, I imagine I am kite,

that I am the one who holds

it on a slender string,

the one who eventually lets it go.

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